Ruby on Rails Engineer (Remote)

Company: VC Lab
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: November 14, 2024

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced full stack Senior Ruby on Rails developer to join our team. Read more about the VC Lab tech team here: The ideal developer is self-motivated with real-world experience and can take an idea and turn it into a functional and usable product. You don't need a fancy degree, a certain number of years of coding experience, or big tech experience -- but you do need to be a nice person and a good communicator.Basic requirements:

• You'll be expected to complete a coding challenge as part of the interview process (everybody on the team has done well on it).
• You must live and work within a few time zones of Pacific (California) time.
• You must be able to own a project and work directly with people who will use your tools.If you're motivated to be more, and better, than you are today, and if you're not afraid to work with proven, highly skilled people who will ask for your best, to advance a worthy cause in a fast-paced environment with a lot of growth opportunity -- then you're a good fit for VC Lab.And we want to work with you too!Who do you want to work with?

• The VC Lab tech team is fully remote.
• We offer competitive salary + equity.
• Our mission is to improve the world by increasing equality and diversity for startup funding.
• We work with an open source tech stack, primarily Ruby on Rails.
• Our leadership is deeply experienced, having been involved in multiple rocketship unicorn success stories.
• Mentorship to help you reach your potential.
• Mentorship opportunities to help others reach their potential.
• Silicon Valley scalability.What skills do you need? The soft stuff:
  • You can take a project from idea to implementation without a lot of oversight.
  • You are a good communicator in both written and spoken English.
  • You have learned a lot of lessons and solved a lot of problems in your career.
  • You can work in the Pacific (California) time zone.
  • You aren't afraid of a fast-paced environment where there is more to do than time to do it.
  • You are willing to complete a code challenge as part of the interview process.What skills do you need? The tech stuff:
    • 3+ years of coding experience.
    • Ruby on Rails or another open source stack.
    • JavaScript.
    • Tailwinds or another CSS library.
    • AWS or Google Cloud.Salary: $80,000 - $180,000 a year, depending greatly on level of experience.About VC LabVC Lab is a well-funded Silicon Valley startup whose mission is to help launch 1,000 new venture funds all around the world, with a particular focus on diversity and sustainability. If you think that the ability for worldwide startups to raise capital is important to advance humanity's most important goals, then VC Lab might be a good fit for you.To applyOur Head of Technology and Product will schedule a 15-minute chat to make sure you're a real person, and assign a small test project. If you're not comfortable doing a code challenge project, then you're not a good fit.We look forward to working with you!
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